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Amanda Schwartz, MS ’11

Partnerships Manager, Partners in Health • Amanda was recently promoted to Partnerships Manager, working with partner organizations who can help Partners in Health to further their mission to break the cycle of poverty and disease. Partners In Health is a Boston-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality medical care and social justice to the destitute...

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Dawna Thomas

Dawna Thomas, PhD ’01

Associate Professor of Africana and Women’s and Gender Studies, Simmons College | Professor Thomas teaches classes on research methods, health and disability, and violence in the family. Her research work has focused on disability policy, economic disparities for individuals with disabilities from culturally diverse communities, community-based participatory research, race and gender disparities in health care,...

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Mary Ellen Mastrorilli

Mary Ellen Mastrorilli, PhD ’08

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Boston University Metropolitan College | Professor Mastrorilli’s research interests focus on female offenders, community corrections, and law and society. She holds over twenty-four years of experience in positions ranging from correction officer to prison administrator....

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JD/MS Law and Public Policy

JD/MS Law and Public Policy

This interdisciplinary graduate program is designed for students who want a solid background in public policy as well as law. After completing the Juris Doctor (JD), students then take one year of courses in Law and Public Policy, ending with a capstone course. The program covers a full range of strategies for creating policy change, including legislation,...

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PhD Law and Public Policy

PhD Law & Public Policy

An interdisciplinary public policy program that provides a comprehensive view of the policy making process and its outcomes. Our interdisciplinary focus means that students come from a variety of backgrounds. And our students typically have several years of work experience. Students quickly find that engaging in a classroom with other students who hold degrees such...

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Michelle Meiser

Michelle Meiser, MS ’06

Director of Homeownership & Asset Manager • Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation • In her capacity at ABCD, Michelle is responsible for management of 10 affordable rental developments (509 units). Through their Homeownership Program Michelle and her staff assists low- and moderate-income home buyers in overcoming obstacles to homeownership by providing home buyer education, individual...

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Antonakes

Steve L. Antonakes, PhD ’98

Head of Bank Supervision, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau • Antonakes was appointed by President Obama to the post in November 2010. Antonakes will be responsible for monitoring how the nation’s largest banks market and sell consumer products such as credit cards, checking accounts, and home loans to ensure they do not mislead or exploit...

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MS Law and Public Policy

The master of science degree provides professional graduate training in public policy with a grounding in law and legal reasoning. Most other public policy primarily emphasize economic analysis and assume that policy is created exclusively through legislation. The M.S. in Law and Public Policy takes a more interdisciplinary approach that recognizes the different dynamics that...

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Roderick Ireland, PhD ’98

Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | “Northeastern has a proud track-record of educating future leaders in public service,” said President Joseph E. Aoun. “Justice Ireland’s career exemplifies an unwavering commitment to serving others. As a member of our faculty, he strengthens our commitment to experiential learning by bringing the judicial system to life for...

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Molly Perdue’s Op Ed published in the Cape Cod Times

Ph.D. Candidate Molly Perdue recently wrote on Op Ed which was published in the Cape Cod Times. It was based on a version of remarks presented to the National Alzheimer's Advisory Committee at the January hearings for the National Alzheimer's Plan.

Molly's LPP dissertation is focused on family caregivers for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. Molly is the director of family services at Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod and the Islands.

Read the Op Ed at http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120216/OPINION/202160334.

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Daryl Finizio Elected Mayor of New London

LPP Ph.D. candidate Daryl Justin Finizio was elected Mayor of New London, Connecticut by a nearly 2-1 margin. With 2,185 votes Finzio became New London's first strong mayor in decade.

"New London has new leadership," Finizio began his victory speech to loud cheers. "I assure the people of New London that this administration will make you proud. It will be an administration with full honesty, transparency and integrity. Corruption, favoritism, abuse of power by any official in any department will not be tolerated."

Read article in the New London Patch: http://newlondon.patch.com/articles/and-the-mayor-is.

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Jennifer Balboni ’06 published

Dr. Jennifer Balboni, (Ph.D. '06) has authored her first academic book, Clergy Sexual Abuse Litigation: Survivors Seeking Justice, now published by FirstForumPress. Dr. Balboni is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Simmons College.

Jennifer Balboni explores the experiences of clergy sex abuse survivors who sought justice through the court system, highlighting the promise and shortfalls of civil litigation in providing justice. Balboni draws on cases across the country such as the landmark 2002 lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Church to show how legal procedures that focused on financial settlements overlooked the survivors’ overarching desire to see the Church publicly

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Steve Nathanson’s book, Terrorism and the Ethics of War

LPP Professor Steve Nathanson’s book,  Terrorism and the Ethics of War (Cambridge Univ. Press) received the Best Book in Social Philosophy Award for 2010 from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. There will be a special session devoted to the book at the NASSP Conference in July.

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Liana Pennington Wins NSF Award

Ph.D. Candidate Liana Pennington was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for her doctoral research. Liana is researching how parents, with a child accused of committing a crime, experience the court system as fair and effective and how views of legitimacy and justice may be developed within families.

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Molly Perdue Makes the News

Ph.D. Candidate Molly Perdue was featured in a front-page Provincetown Banner article profiling how she and her family cared for her mother. Her dissertation is focused on family caregivers for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. She was also cited in an article on care for the elderly in the Cape Cod Times. Molly is the director of family

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  • Alumni Spotlight

    Amanda Schwartz

    Amanda Schwartz, MS '11

    Partnerships Manager
    Partners in Health

    Amanda works with partner organizations who can help Partners in Health further their mission to break the cycle of poverty and disease. Partners In Health is a Boston-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality medical care and social justice to the destitute sick living in some of the world's poorest places.